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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201420142011
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonono

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